Friday, December 22, 2017

EVG reader Steph shared this photo from around 1:15 this afternoon... you can't quite tell from the photo, but the front door is open at the East Village Cheese shop, 80 Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

There's an unconfirmed report from a tipster on the block that the landlord (or landlord rep) is inside the storefront assessing the situation.

As reported yesterday, the shop has been closed for two weeks — and the electricity has been shut off during that time. No one has seen any member of the Cheese staff these past two weeks.

Meanwhile, the aroma of ripe cheese is now noticeable in adjacent spaces. (A commenter on the Fox News story on the EV Cheese suggested that "the smell is the filthy, disgusting liberals living on the sidewalk and alley.")

One reader is particularly concerned about any unpasteurized and raw-milk cheese products that might have been left unrefrigerated and in the open air. (You can read the FDA's statement on this here.)

22 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Whether a cheese is pasteurized or not would have little bearing on it's ability to be healthful for consumption after sitting at room temperature or higher for any length of time. No cheese would be pleasant to consume and in fact potentially dangerous when held outside of ideal conditions for this length of time, pasteurized or not.

I just clicked on the Fox News link. Some of the comments must be from the same people who attend Trump rallies. Truly frightening but expected on Fox. I will never be tempted to click on a Fox link again. There sure are a lot of people out there who think we liberals are the devil incarnate. Feel blessed to be an East Villaget

The funny thing is -- "former Tibetan Monks" (as Fox News reports), or not -- I believe at the time of the 2016 Presidential election the owners supported Trump.

The store certainly appears to be doing an intentional bunk. First, big sales just before Thanksgiving followed by (1) not receiving a cheese delivery (why? did they pay for the previous one?), (2) phone disconnected, (3) electricity off... all leaving their neighbors and former customers with lingering rat-charming cheese fart.

Fox News is exclusively for the hard right, the not so bright and trolls who blame everyone but themselves for their misfortunes. I never click on a Fox link unless I want to lose all hope for the survival of the human race.

Anonymous 23 Dec 5:29, I agree that I wish that the owners had been able to donate to City Harvest. But it looks as if they were buoyed by the thought that things were somehow going to work out until they . . . didn't. Being forced out of Third Avenue seems to have rolled the snowball downhill. I have no personal knowledge of the internal workings of the business, of course, but I never caught a whiff of unkindness or scumbaggery about it. I'll miss this local business.

What is sad about this story is that for all of the talk of East Village mom and pop shops and how important they are to the character of the neighborhood, no one who has posted here and in the earlier thread (with perhaps the exception of one person) knew the names of the Tibetans who owned the store nor did anyone have any personal contact with them. No one seems to have been that friendly with any of the owners that they could supply accurate information (in the place of lots of theorizing and demonizing). So much for the mom and pop concept as an ideal.

Anon. 10:56 - the difference is, mom and pop stores used to be staffed by - mom and pop, always there, never changing, so of course you knew them by name. The times I went to EV Cheese, the owners were never there, and the folks behind the counter were different every time.

@ 10:56 am I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that based on the comments here. It’s not as if absolutely everyone in the neighborhood is represented by the comments here. This is a really small, self-selected sample of people familiar with the place.

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